Staff 
March 7, 2014Foot orthotics are commonly and widely used to treat a lot of different foot conditions and almost all the evidence supports their use. However, they do not necessarily work all the time, which is like any medical and surgical treatment method. There will be failures, but fortunately the failure rate with most treatments are low. With any treatments, a good experienced clinician is always going to use strategies improve the chances of any treatment working. When it comes to foot orthotics there are a number of approaches that can help predict if they work. One of these is a strapping method called low dye tape. It is named after Dr Ralph Dye, a podiatrist who pioneered this strapping. The idea of the strapping is to support the foot in a similar way to what a foot orthotic would do. If the tape or strapping works, then there is a pretty good chance that foot orthotics will work, so if the clinician is unsure, a period of strapping can give some indications.